5 local athletes named winter sports league players of the year

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA (Mar. 19, 2024) — Three local basketball players and one soccer standout, each from a different school, were named most valuable players when the Diablo and East Bay athletic leagues recently announced their winter sports all-league teams.

Keshia Vitalicio is the EBAL player of the year for the Carondelet basketball team, after also winning all-EBAL honors a year ago. The point guard helped the Cougars to the NorCal Division I championship game for the second year running. Carondelet lost the NorCal title game to Bishop O’Dowd.

Junior Alec Blair of De La Salle is co-player of the year for EBAL basketball. The Spartans finished second at NCS Open Division for the third year in a row.

Elijah Perryman, Clayton Valley Charter’s standout junior, is the DAL basketball MVP.

Jared Gallegos of Mt. Diablo won the DAL offensive MVP award while Northgate’s Sarah Burkes was the girls DAL defensive MVP.

 

Diablo Athletic League (local schools), Carondelet and De La Salle soccer, basketball and wrestling athletes getting all-league honors):

Boys Basketball

DAL: MVP – Elijah Perryman (Clayton Valley Charter); 1st team – James Moore CVC), Antonio Kellogg Jr., Loyal Morris (Ygnacio Valley); 2nd team- Chase Robertson, Vince Ellis (CVC), Evan McKnight (YV), Jake Andjus (Northgate), Connor Whittles (College Park); Honorable Mention – Miles Smith (CP), Mateo Ferolino (Concord), Daniel Louie (NG)

DLS: Co-Player of the Year – Alec Blair; 1st team – Arshawn Salkhi; 2nd team – Leo Ricketts

Girls Basketball

DAL: 1st team – Natalie Dance (Mt. Diablo), Amelia Schrag (NG); 2nd team – Samantha Myhr (NG), Makayla Powell (MD), Taylor Ochoa (CP), Lamiyah Washington (Con), Sa’rye Starks (YV); HM – Adrianna Surney, Ella Scott (CVC)
Carondelet: Player of the Year – Keshia Vitalicio; 1st team – Layla Dixon; 2nd team – Sophia Ross

Girls Soccer

DAL: MVP Defense – Sarah Burkes (NG); 1st team – Abigail Schaumann, Meral Erdem (CVC), Keira Lund (NG); 2nd team – Luz Hernandez, Tatiana Diaz (CVC), Rachel Burkes (NG), Kimberly Rubio (YV); HM – Ariana Upson (CP), Mikayla McKenzie (Con), Brianna Taliva’a (CVC)

Carondelet: 1st team – Victoria Alessandrini, Samantha Walker, Chloe Casselman; 2nd team – Kaya Durkee, Gianna Giusto

Boys Soccer

DAL: Offensive MVP – Jared Gallegos (MD); 1st team – Colin Farley, Walter Galindo, Cooper Whiten (CVC), Christopher Arzeta, Yovany Padilla (MD), Blayne Ballard (NG); 2nd team – Ronaldihno Basulto (Con), Angel Olvera (MD), Giovanni Martinez-Negrete, Rohman Mahmood (CVC), Mateo Gonzalez, Adrian Milford (NG); 3rd team – Yeshua Guerrero, Luis De Lira Aguila (CVC), Jose Larios (MD), Tyler Reiger (CP), Leo Tolento (Con)

De La Salle: 1st team – Charlie Sanner, Ronan Rattigan, Tre Roach; 2nd team – Matthew Rajecki, Ryan Roy

Wrestling

DAL Boys: 1st team – Miguel Ruiz-Dare, Srivanth Chennupati, Tyler Owen, Oliver Saelao, Calin Capra, Matt Northrup (CP), Alexander Lopez (MD); 2nd team – Aydin Bagley, Pratham Sharma, Antonio Pucci (NG), Jesse Gonzalez (CP), Mashal Shirzad (MD), Brady Coddington, Joaquin Felix (CVC)

DAL Girls: 1st team – Avery Seidenspinner, Anabelle Rodriguez (CP), Abbi Cooper, Savanna Talmadge, Alondra Hernandez, Isabel Leyva (CVC), Alexis Rotenberry, Blake Powers, Symore Jewell, Rebecca Fletcher, Marina Johnsen (NG), Ayaka Naddy (Con); 2nd team – Danikka Reynoso (NG), Emma Diaz, Victoria Coy, Lorelai Labao, Bernice Lucero (CP), Solei Tello (CVC)

DLS: 1st team – Manuel Martir, Caleb Tatad, Gio Cuevas, Carlos Vazquez, TJ Arvizu, Franklin Enkhmandakh, Alexander Ortiz; 2nd team – Joshua Perez, Sebastian Ramirez, Troy Pierce, Omar Torres; 3rd team – Darius Sanchez, Wyatt Ferguson